Mechanical engineers are involved in designing and creating things as diverse as roller coasters, bomb squad robots, wind turbines, human implants, and hybrid vehicles. At Rutgers, mechanical engineering is about learning how to conceive new ideas and bring them to life through design and manufacturing.

In Rutgers’ mechanical engineering program, you will:

  • Design mechanisms, machines, and structures
  • Explore the composition of high-tech materials (ceramics, composites, biomaterials)
  • Invent high-tech equipment (spacecraft, robots, human implants)
  • Study rapid-prototyping and machining
  • Analyze heat, energy, and mechanical stress that occur within engineering devices such as internal combustion engines, electronic equip­ment, artificial organs, and nuclear reactors
  • Examine nanomaterials, biosystems, diagnos­tics, fire simulation, and fuel cells